Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in…
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How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts
At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But over the next 12 months,…
Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Just days after launching, Roblox’s much-hyped AI-powered age verification system is a complete mess. Roblox’s face scanning system, which estimates peoples’ ages before they can…
Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’ Against the Trump Administration
Reid Hoffman doesn’t do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and Airbnb in their startup days.…
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload real assignments and tasks from their current or previous workplaces so that it can use the data to…
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
Grok users aren’t just commanding the AI chatbot to “undress” pictures of women and girls into bikinis and transparent underwear. Among the vast and growing…
X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with…
‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car
Physical AI sounds like a contradiction in terms. A computer, but a body? But for the marketing architects, it’s the latest term of art, a…
AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI are racing to develop “operating systems” for AI-powered devices—and 2026 is likely the year these efforts will…
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have been sharing…